BuddyPress.org

You don’t need a BuddyPress theme, any WordPress theme will work just fine.
You can create a child theme for your current theme and modify BuddyPress behaviour through it. Copy /plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ to your theme (in root).

Remove everything that you don’t need, and leave only /your-theme/buddypress/members/single directory. In that dir you should work with home.php files and others, that are relevant to you.

But now I see that redefining BuddyPress template only won’t work as expected. You also need to create page-members.php file, where members – is the slug of you Members Directory page. It should be modified with

if ( bp_is_user() ) {
    get_header('slim');
} else {
    get_header();
}

and same for get_footer('slim') instead of the default usage. You will need to create header-slim.php and footer-slim.php files as well, and THERE you should remove all your navigation and all markup you don’t want that pages to have.

So yeah, quite a work, but doable once you dive into that. Hopefully I gave you the direction and general idea.

This might be because the emails are coming out with a WordPress email address, you could try using something like CB Change Mail Sender to change the address to one specific to your site maybe?

The best way – to allow access to specific pages for logged in users only. As GoogleBot is logged out – it will lose access and eventually remove indexed content. You can remove manually from Google Web Developer Console for this site as well.
There are quite a lot of topics like these here on the forum. Just google it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-members-only/
etc

You can’t do that in PHP. Well, actually you can – but you will break all the styling, as you will filter our header/footer.php files include. So basically it’s not a good idea.

The best idea – to use a child theme. You can than even switch to that child theme for specific pages on your site. One of the ways to do that: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-different-themes-for-pages/

Another idea – do some magic with BuddyPress templates. It’s totally possible, but you will quite heavily modify them (that will complicate future maintainability).

Also it would be easier to help you if you provided a URL to your site.

Make sure, that you have “Anyone can register” checkbox in Settings checked,
AND
on this page /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings “Register” component assigned to a WordPress page like this: http://take.ms/vYrhb

Check documentation
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Once child is activated, as soon as you click on appearence > editor it is the child style.css file which is showed.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Editor_Screen

https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS

Closing this topic as it subject is not related to BuddyPess.

You could try this plugin, it replaces the profile page send message for with an Ajax form

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-message-ux/

This is outside scope of BuddyPress support as the login system is core WordPress. You may get better answers in the WordPress forums.

– you can add a condition for logged-in user on the directory template.
– for the menu itself, and specially if it is a wordpress menu like primary, you need to write a function. Here another tutorial for this. It’s similar to the other i’ve mentionned previously, but with more examples (including positionning and conditionnals).

wp_nav_menu()

wp_get_nav_menus()

And you can also open an enhancement ticket if you estimate this should be part of BuddyPress and not only WordPress.

@tranny,

dealing with spammers is a long run work, to not say a never ending work. There is no miraculous plugin or trick to stop them.
And even if you would be a genius coder creator of an extra super original spam shield, you could be sure to became target #1 of all spammers, because in this case, you would represent the absolute challenger of all code breakers !

Back to real life.

Most of updates spam comes directly into the DB. Bots are clever and don’t need to login to do that.
Some spammers are real people, and once they are logged, they do their stuff manually. These people can be isolated, but to do this, you have to find them in the user list. Which is absolutely not easy and time comsumting. And of course, this is not prevention but intervention, after you where spammed.

You could also track IP‘s, but again, this can be helpfull only AFTER you where spammed. But getting ip’s on admin user list is a great way to gain time. Once you have the IP, you can consult many anti spam sites who store any bot and user known to be attackers. And eventually ban them with this plugin.

For now, first thing to do is to clean your user list. Whatever suspect username, like a589xdf or special to BP, Bill UNERHOOD, can be eliminated. The first example use alpha-numeric digits, the second a very well formed first and last name. It’s extremely rare that normal users enter such credentials. In addition to this, you can check their email. Why would you, for example, have members with a polish email (@blogmedykamenty.pl) if you’re in New Zeeland and your site relates about pets ? In this case, you can raisonably doubt about an interest between medicaments and pets ! You can fire such user.

All this may be good and well, but you have also to hardening WP. This means using another table prefix as wp_ at very first. And second, to not use “admin” as user name. Never !
Read also @venutius tutorial

You have to clean out the existing spammers, unfortunately manually. And to avoid upcoming spam.

To calm down the bots – in case you receive dozen of spam daily, close all comments and deactivate notices and messages component in bp settings for 2 or 3 weeks.

Also, in case you’re on a dedicated server, you really need to enforce his security. But this is out of the scope of this forum.

I tested by switching my WordPress locale to da_DK and the dynamic timestamp is loading da.js correctly.

@adjunkten – If you want to help debug, can you add the following line:

var_dump( $locale );

after lines 31 and 42 of this file?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.7.0/src/bp-core/bp-core-cssjs.php?marks=31,42#L22

BP 2.7 introduced dynamic timestamps using livestamp.js and moment.js.

For dynamic timestamp localization to work correctly, we try to load the moment.js localization file.

It is quite possible that moment.js does not come with a Danish translation.

@adjunkten – Can you check to see if there is a Danish translation here?
https://github.com/moment/moment/tree/develop/locale

If so, can you output your WordPress locale using get_locale()? There might be a bug in how we are checking for the moment.js locale file.

Your time stamps looks correct, I’m guessing you mean the Danish translation isn’t working correctly?

You can grab the newest Danish Buddypress translation here https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/da/default/wp-plugins/buddypress followed by merging your current buddypress-da_DK.po file in poedit like this http://www.marketpressthemes.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-po-files-using-poedit/, translate the words you needs to translate, save it as both buddypress-da_DK.po and buddypress-da_DK.mo – and reupload it to your server in your language folder.

How do I add a new member to buddypress from the backend of WP?
They are the forum moderators and group admins.
So, how do I “activate” them?

What should be understood from your questions ?

Adding a new user from backend and/or promote it as mod or group admin ?
Adding a new user is not related to BuddyPress, but to WordPress.

To promote users as mod or admin or add new user to a group from back-end
dashboard > groups > select the group > edit > anything to do that is at the bottom of the screen.

If they are known to you then you can set them up in the way that you suggested, if you choose not to send them and email, that will prevent the activation mail going out and they will be free to login, you will have to tell them their password though.

To those that have not activated their accounts you can view them in the Dashboard>>Users>>All Users views, their one view called Pending, it’s in here you will find unactivated users.

You could always turn registration on, for them, let them see a new users view of getting set up on the site.

I’m trying to put together a guide to setting up social networks with BuddyPress, you might like to give it a look, it’s here: It’s spread over multiple chapters that you can access via the “Installing BuddyPress” menu.

It’s nothing official, just information on what I’ve discovered over the past couple of years so it’s pretty current.

I see you are using wordfence security plugin. There was a recent but that was preventing uploads on my BP site. You may want to check this thread in WP plugin support forum to see if it related to your problem.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-update-and-image-uploads/#post-8350474